How's that smell to you, i think you missed something. What do you mean? Look on that hole over there? What's that hole for i have no idea, that's where people hide the mess, that is that a pipe in there it looks like it are. You are you serious, welcome to movies garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and this is my 2019 maserati levante, a warm westerly wind that blows through the street of gibraltar. That's what it's named after and this was the cheapest one, because it was a bank repo with over a hundred thousand miles and numerous issues, including a sludged up engine that hadn't had an oil change in 60 000 miles.

We've done that oil change and so far the engine has not blown up i've driven it. You know maybe 50 miles and really i need to drive it about 200 miles before we flush the oil again, but this car is pretty undrivable because of the horrible smell. That's inside initially the wizard urination bob me. We all thought it was animal urine, but then you, people of the internet, comment sections.

Let me know that that's also the smell of meth and some other drugs, and once i knew that i started putting things together and realized that this car well, it was a drug meal. Unfortunately, the smell is concentrated in the rear of the car, where the cargo area is the spare tire where you would smell that horrible stuff, and we definitely need to see if we can get that out of the car. If i can actually stand to drive this thing more than a short period of time and actually take my kids in it, because right now, the fumes - probably not good. In addition, the tires are so bad on this thing: they're like four different brands of tires, and one of them is so bald and it leaks air about every two or three days.

It goes completely empty. So i can't drive around a car with those kind of tires, so i'm actually going to buy some fresh rims for my levante as well, but before i get some wheels coming and buy missing, trim bits fixing, broken things on the inside and electrical problems and some Oil leaks on a 2019 maserati. I do need to figure out if the smell is going to get out, so we're going to go to van gogh. They are detailers.

They are really automotive restorers at this point because they are working on a buick roadmaster. For me right now, wood, paneling and all redoing it and i'm actually pretty astounded with the pictures he sent me so far, so i'm anxious to go check on it, but also to see what he thinks of this smell. So, oh, don't make me go in there. Please, but before we try to get the metharati a little less messy thanks for that nickname by the way, i'd like to thank zip recruiter for sponsoring today's video hiring is obviously a huge challenge right now and as a person who, in a life before youtube, was Involved with the hiring of up to 100 people at a time to open a store, i know how hard it can be and i sure wish i knew about zip recruiter back then zip recruiter uses its powerful matching technology to find and match the right people with Your job there are so many other ways that zip recruiters technology helps you, including scanning thousands of resumes to identify candidates with the right skills and experience for your job, zip, recruiter's, easy to use dashboard lets you sort review and rate your candidates, all in one convenient Place ziprecruiter also lets you personally invite qualified candidates in a quick, easy way with one button and pre-written personal messages.

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What you ever wonder what meth smells like? Is this what it smells like it's supposed to yeah. Will i be able to drive home? Yes, it's! I don't think you can get the residual fumes that causes anything but uh. Oh this thing needs some work and yeah. I know you're right in the middle of a big project right now, but just this one, you know, i think you have an ozone machine or something to get that smell out.

We can get that out, yeah just do the interior and then i'll come back later. I need to get this trim piece and clean the rest of it up, but that smell is yeah, so you can get it out of the window sound. I think so i think so i sure hope so for your sake, i've never said no, so you haven't which speaking of the roadmaster that's the other reason i'm here. That was a big project.

Yes, a lot of progress. You want to see it. Oh yeah, you get to see it in the middle. So by the way i've got some wood for you.

Oh so we got the wood in very nice um, there's two colors, that's a girthy roll there! Yeah one is your inside. You know the main wood and then you have to cut all these little strips out to do the moldings. I see all right. Sorry, the wizard and i joke like that.

I'm not sure if we have that rapport yet, but i appreciate it so sorry yeah. Okay, you caught me on that. That does look. That does look really really nice, though i mean that's dead, on very shiny compared to.

What's is the wood still on the old wagon? It is, and what's so funny was, it was so glossy. I thought they sent their own stuff, so i got online. Did some research no sure enough? It's glossy, but it was just they're all faded because they're all old cars right? Yes, okay, it was kind of funny yeah, oh yeah, you are rubbing on the woody. There aren't you yeah, all right, yeah, so we've taken no we've started where we've taken the moldings off yeah um.

I haven't taken this off yet we just started there. We thought, while this is still on we're gon na, go ahead and start wet sanding. So this was the old paint right, so it was a kind of a repaint in a dull single stage, which i didn't know happened. I mean it was yeah.

It was a very, very dull. I didn't think you could say that kind of thing which i'm looking over here in this corner. I'm guessing! That's you! Yes, yes, so you know it's getting there it. It is.

So you can see where you know we started sanding on it. He just we just did a quick buff. We just wanted to see how it was going to turn out right. Of course.

The final result, you know, will be much better. I can see a little bit of dirt still in the paint but yeah you know it's a single stage paint was what it would have had from the factory. So it's not like it's going to be a showroom like 50 000 paint job. You know a little paint meter went but um, so i kind of went around and it's some points.

It's six mil some. It's only three mil so one spot. It was 10 mil. So we're a little eerie.

You know on wet sanding, but uh. It's going to turn out pretty good. I think. Okay, so we've gotten all up here, he's you've sanded the roof.

You know even doing the door pillars up here we had. We took all the trim off, so we could sand in there um. This is a part. You never get to see so i'm kind of glad you came by yeah because you get to see it.

So all the moldings are off here: um the uh. Here's all your moldings by the way right, so it would have had its own little wood kind of vinyl so peeled onto this, which is so we're sanding these down. You know we're setting them down before we wrap them and then all these are re-wrapped. There's a front fender yeah, there's a front fender here, there's another one: you can kind of see the old wood there yeah we'll see in the rear, hatch, yeah, okay, yeah.

It was interesting there i'll show you something um, we kind of remember some old tint on this window. That was stuck underneath the third brake light. So that's why this is all apart and we thought well well, we got it apart. Um we'll work on that.

So we got all that off uh, you can see he's back here, he's getting ready. We got ta strip, this off um i'll have to turn the radio up real loud when the guys are doing this, because i just don't want to hear go, be some swear. Words, oh yeah, because i'll get it started, so you need like a heat gun and a lot of patience with this right, especially when it's old like this, where it comes off that that's yeah, that's could be, fun could be fun so, but you can see here You know this was how the tail lights were kind of. We were playing with that a little bit.

So, of course, isn't done. You can still see residue and things in there, but he's working on those. So this car is this. This panel, this you know pillar here, has been done.

Um again, we were kind of doing that to see what the end result was going to look like. So it's just going to turn out fantastic, it's a little more probably than this car deserves. I see the rubber here is yeah. This is all your top moldings um we're going to.

Since someone had tried to paint it looks like maybe in their garage or something so you know we started uh sanding this down, we'll just quickly spray, those back to flat black and uh, so it's gon na be like a light restoration, but what's so cool about This you don't have to really repaint anything. This trim, that's different. This is just quick paint, but right you get to you, don't have to repaint this. So that's nice yeah.

So it's just gon na buff out yeah and it you know it looks sort of appropriate to the car, not like something. That's been over restored over repainted. You know this kind of looks like probably what a buick would have looked like new coming out of the factory. The paint job wouldn't have been that nice.

So right, it's very cool! Well, yeah, i'm looking forward to seeing it all together, yeah, probably just in the two or three hours right. That's yeah! Wait. It always is with your flowers. We even uh.

We did the hood ornament. Oh, that was, it was loose. It was dangling and when it was on the car you could sit there and go like this. So yeah we buffed it out.

You know kind of cleaned it all up. So you know once this is all done. It's just gon na give me which way it goes, but it's gon na look. It's gon na look really cool well.

This is this will be an amazing transformation. I can't wait to see it. The maserati is not a transformation that people will be able to see on youtube, it'll be right, uh smell! Thank you. So much stuart appreciate it yeah yeah, oh! So, on your way home i'll i'll, give you a little bit of here, oh yeah.

No i'm just so you can take all right. You don't have to smell that, whatever that was. That was one way to do it. Well, it's been about five days and it's another lovely day in hooptie land and actually the roadmaster is finished.

I'm so excited to go, see it and so excited to drop this maserati off and get the smell out of it. But one other thing that's going to happen, which is visual, is we're getting rid of these horrible 19-inch wheels and this tire that's absolutely ruined. I bought these and they've come in 20-inch maserati spork special wheels. Here you can see it's a little bit of a two-tone with the metallic really really nice.

I could have gone over the top, but these were only 1500 bucks. They came with nearly new continentals. This was the logical choices. 21 inch trofeo wheels are like way more expensive, like three or four thousand dollars aftermarket wheels, it's kind of hit and miss on whether it looks this one will also ride better because you have 20 inch wheels and still some tire left.

So i have some shock absorption so i'll get this over to the car ninjas we'll mount up these wheels and then head over to van gogh. That tire has lost 15 psi in less than 24 hours. Normally i'd air it back up, but i don't care anymore. If it goes flat, we're just running on the rim to the ninjas since a couple miles we'll be fine, finally get some good-looking wheels on this maserati.

I still can't get over the fact that, yes, this thing has a hundred thousand miles on it, but it's only three years old and it has all these issues and i'm talking really really fast, probably because i'm sitting in this car too much and picking up the Fumes and it's having an effect, but anyway, someone had to try really really hard to get this car to get thing just died. It has that auto stop start because it's a new car, but someone had to try really really hard to get the car to this state. It's so sad! It's urination bob! It's a it's a beetle with spooks on it and fluke me that's very cool! How much? Oh no, i have a pending sale. Oh okay, pre-sold! Sorry, oh well, all right! Well, i'm gon na do some maserati wheeling here.

That's neat, ninja ugly ugly! I got some wheels that are less ugly. I saw him beautiful, how's that smell to you. I think you missed something. What do you mean? Look on that hole over there? What's that hole for i have no idea, that's where people hide the mess, that is that a pipe in there it looks like it are you s? Are you serious? I can't get it out.

I thought i had gotten everything, but i didn't realize there's another hiding spot here, a little vin. This car is great for these people because there's so many spots, so that is a a vape pipe. It's a fog. So is that just for vaping uh could be it doesn't look uh mass-produced? Does it i'm not you want to try it? No, i'm good! That has got to be the first use of a maserati vin port to hide small things.

Small objects. Are you still poking around it's horrible in here? Oh, it's yeah! It's really bad! Oh my god! It's really bad! It's going straight from you to the detailer yeah. Does he know? What's he's getting himself? Yes, he's already pre-smelted the wear and the bumper from lifting things into the trunk is just ridiculous same with the curbs on the wheels. I mean you have to try hard to get them that bad, of course, four different brands of tires, but oh what an improvement! This is gon na, be those look great they're, also exactly what jenny wizard's wife has on her maserati.

So i'm i'm trying to be jenny. I guess there's before and after that'll do take it a little longer because we have to swap the tire pressure sensors, but otherwise going smooth as easy as changing tires yeah. It's a very italian looking suspension here with the crossing of control, arms they're, all diagonal. None of them are straight, fascinating, really, lower control, arms, crooked kind of cool the last fork, maybe maybe it's hard when the camera's rolling the pressure's on there we go the last wheel.

Now i just need to fix the smell ben likes. The smell, though, way, better way, way way. Better ben was telling me he likes the smell good boy, ain't right. It reminds him of something that he enjoys uh is it? Does it start with an m? I hope not.

He still has all of his teeth. Oh yeah, maybe they're fake well now that we've rided that wrong, let's head over to van gogh and fix the other wrong on this thing, the smell and the roadmaster, i'm so excited to see it. Well, i'm back how you doing you like my wheels. I do man that looks so much better.

We found a little more uh paraphernalia in the car actually earlier when we were taking the wheels out. So i don't know when you do the inside and clean it up. You may find some more, hopefully, hopefully not be careful. Please yeah! These look great yeah yeah.

I like these well how's the roadie. It's done! It's done! Yes, okay! I'm gon na take this in for just a second before i reveal it here, i'm going to go on the sunny side, oh holy crap, that it looks like a new car. Is it wet, i know wow sure changes it. It completely does.

So that's what it looked like new from the factory. You just never see them anymore. Looking like this, because they've all faded out, i know it's all going bad, it's gorgeous and then the wheels you clear coated them right. Yeah.

You know that we didn't restore the wheels you clean them because they're machined, so it was just a quick. You know just to make it look a little better. It gets the cloudy out yeah without sending them out and having them. Re-Machined right.

You can't, if you paint them silver, it doesn't look good, and this is the paint that yeah i dropped it off with yeah. That was scared to touch without it getting all over. You i mean was this: this is just wet sanding and patience and eating and buffing. You actually got to see it that one time yeah and then we paint here like painted these um holy moly yeah.

But i'm really surprised to be honest with you that uh the paint came out as well as it did. That's absolutely wild. So yeah. I only see the one spot, which was still kind of like a bird poop and etching there, but yeah other than that.

But the good news is, you didn't have to repaint anything, that's unbelievable. Just you know doing all the vital in the wood and, of course, the inside yeah. We were able to uh get that dash um cleaned up for you. It was, you know they had the dash pad.

It was hiding all that dirt, so we're able to get that off as good as we could and yes and then match the door card with the yeah fade there yeah holy crap yeah. So i know you found a gym on this one yeah, it sure came. I you know i i was. I was kind of disappointed when i bought this thing and it showed up.

I knew i was needing to redo the wood, but then the paint that was frustrating - i was expecting not this, but holy moly. This is yeah. This is insane okay and it smells good. It does smell excellent, unlike the maserati, so i guess you can uh.

You can take care of that right. You got the roadmaster keys or we i do well they're in there with uh guess what the uh bill. I guess yeah yeah kind of broke a record with me this time. Oh, oh, so, you're being like the wizard.

Now, all right, no, no i'll, gladly pay. We we left the leveler because we just enjoyed it so much. We thought we got to leave that in there for the suspension here. Okay, so yeah, oh yeah, i got all the glass cleaned got all that bad window.

Tent you know that was messed up painted this cleaned all this holy crap all right. Well, let's see what the damage is, because we didn't really like estimate this out. Did we we just said yeah, i didn't kind of say, go nuts didn't i yeah and i kind of took the word carte blanche kind of you know. I tried to look it up.

I thought you know. If i look it up, it may hold me back. Okay, i have a let's see: um. Oh it's this one, all right! It is before i show you the bill.

I ca. I saved you a souvenir. Oh the wood grain very nice. All right.

I can maybe auction this off and try and absorb the blow. That is coming here, which is, let's see, oh those are just schematics yeah, okay, um, forty forty two hundred dollars yeah. Well, i mean that's about what i expected. Yes uh.

I paid 4 500 uh 11 12 years ago for my last muted road master, but you can see all the research yeah. Oh no! No! No! No! You did a lot of work. Yeah yeah! So now i'm like 15 grand into this one to have it again, but but it's probably the nicest one. Oh it's nicer than my old one.

It's a nice, solid, texas car underneath it's so nice, the engine bay. You saw so nice yeah yep everything works on it right. Well, i'll pay you or just grab the keys and run, but you already have your audi keys, um yeah, so i'll be back, probably how's. It gon na take you're gon na bomb, the maserati bomb, the maserati uh clean.

What we'll do is we'll take everything out of the back okay clean all that up since we know there's some kind of residue there. So we get all that cleaned, then we'll we'll check the rest of it vomit um and see what we have at that point, and then we talk later. If you want to detail it after yeah yeah, i need to get a trim piece and smell something outside. I just need something for now: let's just get rid of the smell and i'll pay the bill.

Yes. Well now the car looks as good as it drives. This is absolutely outstanding and really really tugging at my nostalgia strings right now, because, basically, an entire chapter of my life, i had a 94 buick roadmaster estate wagon in blue, like this. Basically, the entire period from when i had my car dealership graduated college.

Up until when i started the next chapter with the burgers - and i was completely flat broke at the end of the car dealership, run needed money and uh well sold my buick roadmaster to buy a toyota prius, because i was traveling so much for work, and i Tried to buy the car back, but it was gone. It went to germany, actually the next owner, that i sold it to sold it to somebody who exported to germany, and while this isn't the car that i drove to both coasts twice and drove my daughter home from the hospital. It's it's pretty darn close and man. Is it nicer than the one i even had back then? So, oh, this is great and let me tell you it smells wonderful too, not even a small hint of meth, so we'll find out if the maserati can come back here in a few days.

Hopefully, well it's been a few days and it's the moment of truth and i'm so addicted to stuart and van gogh that i keep leaving cars. This one actually left a little with my blood. When i slammed my finger in the hatch when i first got it, but oh we'll get the hazmat suit out. Oh, thank you, but really.

This is what i want to fix this bottom bumper, which i just i can't that looks terrible, oh yeah, for a 44 000 mile car. We could make that look better and you've been pretty good about matching. So far with the yellow and stuff - and it's been painted before so yeah, we'll get that we'll get that fixed, no loss. So how was the maserati? It is smell, free yeah.

We hope wait. Okay, it's over here yeah, the original times we jumped in it. The smell was so bad, it burped all over our nostrils, so you might be desensitized, so i don't smell anything good, which is good. How it's supposed to be, i suppose right.

So we found a lot of that residue. This there's this yellow stuff yeah, we put a bomb back here and then we put a bomb oops. We put a bomb up in the interior, okay, so uh. We also removed the cabin filter and um.

Did you find anything else interesting, just a lot of weird residue? It was interesting so we're over here and we have a friend who's a cop and he came up and said: what do you think the smell is? We think we know what it is pretty sure. It's all stuck his head in there that's called shaken bake. I said what is that? I guess it's some concoction they make when they're doing meth and it must have spilled in the car they put them in, like you know, water, bottles and stuff, and that whatever i okay all right. So that's what spilled in the back of it and that's! Okay, because it really didn't look and sort of smell like urine but yeah, not so so, okay yeah that was all taken apart before yeah.

Don't worry about it, yeah! So, but anyway, all this came out. We got it all cleaned up. We did have to remove a little bit of the foam that was under this tire there's these little foam strips because they were saturated okay, so we just took those out well, it was overwhelming before and now it's just now, it smells like, maybe a little bit Of cleaning products but well good. That means it's working yeah! That's the chlorine! Okay! It smells like a little alright.

Well, the roadmaster was an incredible transformation. This is, i mean you can't see it but obviously way better. So thank you. This car is not like dangerous to hold my children in anymore.

So that's that's kind of an important thing yeah, but you guys didn't have fun doing it. I'm sure they didn't. I don't know if it was the smell. Oh yeah, they were they're getting high off the supply, but we always try to chalk something up.

You know hey, we did one of those appreciate it. Yes, thank you for diving on that horribleness. Also, absolutely i guess this is it now. I need to drive it a few hundred more miles and then flush the oil again because it didn't have the oil change for 60 000 miles order.

Some bits fix some leaks and and buy a new cabin filter. Oh we removed the cabin okay. We'll do we decided that had to have been holding some fumes. I imagine so so that's that's it! What an interesting car! Thank you so much for watching!.